Spike Jonze Quotes

I always try to set a positive example for my generation and promote confidence.

I think with acting, since I became an actor... I, as a person, have become more confident and I have really come out of my shell somewhat... and back to myself, you know.

Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.

What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve. I wanted to grow.

Art helped give me confidence.

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

My first and most loved real novel was 'Little Women.' I identified with the Jo character even though we were opposites. Jo was very strong-minded and brave, and I was shy and kind of a wuss, everyplace but in my own home. I wanted to be Jo. She was my alter ego. I think reading that book gave me courage.

We all need songs that bring out our inner swagger just listening to it.

Acting was the place where I could be free and feel confident.

I spent a lot of times sitting in big rooms full of a lot of men and executives thinking, 'What would Oprah say right now?' and trying to channel that as hard as I could. And mostly that was just about having the confidence. If this woman did it, it can be done. And there's no reason for anybody to stop you.

Until Mad Season, I didn't have that confidence to write songs, and I really got it, playing with these guys. It meant the world to me.

I had a teacher when I was in college, and he was the first person who liked my photos and said, 'The way you look at girls is your own way of seeing.' He was the first person who really gave me the confidence to try something.

Without theater, I don't think I would have thought I was a smart person or excelled at anything.

It's truly disheartening to me to see so many beautiful women who have no idea what their potential is.

I want my story to help others see what's extraordinary in themselves.

Filming 'Glow' helped with my confidence.

Kids will tell me 'oh I want to be like you when I grow up,' you know. I just thought 'nah, don't be like me, be like you,' because first of all they don't really know me but second of all I understand what they're trying to say but I just let them know - be like you.

Remember that the most confident people make others feel confident around them.

I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.

My whole life, I thought I sucked. And then I get in here, and I grapple other people, and I'm like, 'I'm actually good.'

I'm really good at bringing out greatness - in anybody. I don't even have to be in the studio. What a gift to be able to help people bring out the best qualities in them.